Bag-holder



(No Model.) n'

0. G. NOSKER BAG HOLDER.

A'Nn. 575,975; n Patented Jan. 25, 1897.

U NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ORREN Gr. NOSKER, OF SI-IELDON, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES M. OOATS I,

ANI) CHARLES E. OOR-LETT, OF AURORA, ILLINOIS.

BAG-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 575,97 5, dated January 26, 1897. Applicationiiiled September 21,1896. Serial No. 606.545. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.'

Be it known that I, ORREN G. NOSKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sheldon, in the county of Iroquois, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bag-Holders, of which the following is a speciiication, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

` This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in bag-holders; and it has for its objects, among others, to provide a simple and cheap device for holding bags of any size and in any desired quantity. It is composed of fewparts and constructed to hold the bags and yet permitof their ready removal one by one as may be required. The bag-holding device may be placed upon any suitable support and any desired number may be employed. The bag-holding device may be placed upon a portable or a fixed support.

Other objects and advantages of the inven- ,tion will hereinafter appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a perspective view showing one form of the invention.` Fig. 2 is an enlarged view with the bag-holding device in vertical section and the support in elevation; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view, on an enlarged scale, of a portion of the bag-holding spring. Referring now to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates a support of any desired character. It may be the wall of a building or it may be an upright, as indicated in Fig. 1, secured to the vertical portions B of the castings, having feet b, which may rest upon the door or counter, and, if desired, may be affixed thereto by screws or other means passed through the openings in the horizontal portions of the legs. On this upright may be one, two, or more of the bag-holding devices. Each of these devices is constructed as follows:

C is a spring-plate bent as shown, having its lower end bent as at c and its free end curved outwardly, so as to be readily grasped by the hand when necessary, and the upper v able manner, as by having its ends bent at right angles to its length and inserted inthe support, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2, or otherwise, as may be preferred. The free ends e of the wire or rod E bear against the outer face of the su pport A, while the coil e loosely encircles said rod or wire, as shown, and the wire after being thus coiled is extendedto form the substantially parallel arms E and the cross portion E2 parallel with the rod E, and it is about these parallel portions E that the upper end of the plate C is aliiXed in the following manner: The upper end of said plate has upon its opposite sides notches C', and the portions C2 above said notches are extended and curved, as shown, so as to embrace the parallel portions E of the springwire, the end of the spring-plate C being extended beneath the horizontal portion E2 of said wire andthe notches C receiving the wire at the junction of the parallel arms and the horizontal portion.

The operation will be apparent, the device being shown in Fig. 1 in position for use, the bags being folded, as indicated, and the folded ends held beneath the bent portion O4 of the spring-plate.

In some cases I may employ a stripof emerypaper or sandpaper G or other roughened surface upon the face of the support in proximity to the lower end of the plate O to increase the frictional contact between the bags and the support, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2.

Modifications in detail may be resorted to without departing from the spiritof the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a rod, of a wirel having its ends coiled thereabout, and a tions of said Wire and having its lower end spring-plate having notches and parallel porcurved and bent outwardly.; asset forth. 1o tions bent to engage over the parallel por- In testimony whereof I aftx my signature tions of said Wire; substantially as described. in presence of two Witnesses.

2. The combination with a rod, of a Wire ORREN G. NOSKER. having its ends coiled thereabout, and a Vitnesses: spring-plate having notches and parallel por- W. WV. MUNSON,

tions bent to engage over the parallel por- J. F. SWITZER. 

